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Show CLEANLINESS IS BIG FACTOR Special Care Should Be Taken to Prevent Pre-vent Meal in Corner of Boxes From Fermenting. Cleanliness Is one of the most important im-portant factors in feeding young calves. Clean feeding pails, troughs, and stalls are safeguards against digestive di-gestive troubles. Milk should be fed only in clean pails, which should be washed and scalded after each feeding. feed-ing. All feed boxes should be kept clean. Special care should be taken to prevent meal from fermenting in the corners of boxes. Fermented or moldy feed will often upset the digestive diges-tive system of a calf and endanger its life. No more grain should be fed than will be cleaned up in a few minutes. The bedding in calf stalls becomes wet very quickly. The calf should by all means be kept dry, and it is therefore necessary to keep the stalls well bedded at all times. |